A case report of absent auditory steady-state responses in an elderly person with moderate sensorineural hearing loss
Abstract
Background: Auditory steady-state response (ASSR) is a test for the estimation of auditory thresholds. It is used in infants, children, and adults. This case report presented unusual ASSR results in an elderly person.
The Case: Pure tone and speech audiometry, tympanometry and acoustic reflexes showed a moderate sensorineural hearing loss in both ears. However, the patient did not respond in the ASSR test to different carrier frequencies with frequency modulations of 40 and 80 Hz.
Conclusion: To date, the results of the different effects of the aging process obtained from ASSR responses have been reported. However, the absence of any response in the ASSR test has never been reported. The patient in this case report may have these results because of a neural deficit.
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2. Jafarzadeh S, Jalaie B, Kamali M. [A comparison of thresholds in auditory steady-state response with pure tone audiometry in subjects with normal hearing and those with mild and moderate sensorineural hearing loss]. Audiol. 2008;17(1):53-62. Persion.
3. Tlumak AI, Durrant JD, Delgado RE, Boston JR. Steady-state analysis of auditory evoked potentials over a wide range of stimulus repetition rates: profile in children vs. adults. Int J Audiol. 2012;51(6):480-90. doi: 10.3109/14992027.2012.664289
4. Lin YH, Chen PR, Hsu CJ, Wu HP. Validation of multi-channel auditory steady-state response in adults with sensorineural hearing loss. J Laryngol Otol. 2009;123(1):38-44. doi: 10.1017/S0022215108002351
5. Coyle S, Gordon E, Howson A, Meares R. The effects of age on auditory event-related potentials. Experimental aging research. 1991;17(2):103-11. doi: 10.1080/03610739108253889
6. Gaal ZA, Csuhaj R, Molnar M. Age-dependent changes of auditory evoked potentials--effect of task difficulty. Biol Psychol. 2007;76(3):196-208. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.07.009
7. Griskova-Bulanova I, Dapsys K, Maciulis V. Does brain ability to synchronize with 40 Hz auditory stimulation change with age? Acta Neurobiol Exp (Wars). 2013;73(4):564-70.
8. Leigh-Paffenroth ED, Fowler CG. Amplitude-modulated auditory steady-state responses in younger and older listeners. J Am Acad Audiol. 2006;17(8):582-97. doi: 10.3766/jaaa.17.8.5
9. Parthasarathy A, Lai J, Bartlett EL. Age-Related changes in processing simultaneous amplitude modulated sounds assessed using envelope following responses. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol. 2016;17(2):119-32. doi: 10.1007/s10162-016-0554-z
10. Sanz-Fernández R, Sánchez-Rodriguez C, Granizo JJ, Durio-Calero E, Martín-Sanz E. Accuracy of auditory steady-state and auditory brainstem responses to detect the preventive effect of polyphenols on age-related hearing loss in Sprague-Dawley rats. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2016;273(2):341-7. doi: 10.1007/s00405-015-3551-7
11. Poulsen C, Picton TW, Paus T. Age-related changes in transient and oscillatory brain responses to auditory stimulation in healthy adults 19-45 years old. Cereb Cortex. 2007;17(6):1454-67. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhl056
12. Tlumak AI, Durrant JD, Delgado RE. The effect of advancing age on auditory middle- and long-latency evoked potentials using a steady-state-response approach. Am J Audiol. 2015;24(4):494-507. doi: 10.1044/2015_AJA-15-0036
13. Boettcher FA, Poth EA, Mills JH, Dubno JR. The amplitude-modulation following response in young and aged human subjects. Hear Res. 2001;153(1-2):32-42. doi: 10.1016/s0378-5955(00)00255-0
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| Issue | Vol 29 No 1 (2020) | |
| Section | Case Report(s) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.18502/avr.v29i1.2372 | |
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| Sensorineural hearing loss; aging; auditory steady-state response | ||
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Jafarzadeh S. A case report of absent auditory steady-state responses in an elderly person with moderate sensorineural hearing loss. Aud Vestib Res. 2020;29(1):60-63.
